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I have also been searching for links to my Iwanow (father's) ancestors for a long time and haven't really found anything. As far as I know, there were no Alexandras in my family. My father was born in Russia in 1898.His name was Wassili Iwanow. His parents names were Evcemia and Wassili. He was a soldier in the Russian Revolution of 1917. He "escaped" from Russia shortly thereafter to Paris, France, where he became a taxi driver. He then lived in Germany, and then Austria, where he met and married my mother, and then we all came to the USA through New York Harbor in 1950, during the year that I was born. I have no siblings. My father passed away in 1962. He had an older sister named Olga, who I never knew. The only other thing that I have learned is that the Iwanow, Ivanova, Ivanov, and similar variations, is a very common Russian last name. Don't give up. I won't. One more bit of information I have about my father is that he was never married before my mother, at least that is what she had told me (she passed in 1983), but that he lived with a woman by the name of Marta, in Germany, for some years. She was older than him. They did not have any children together supposedly, and it is unclear as to whether she had any children before living with my father.